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Notice: Due to budget reductions, effective August 15, 2025, the MSU Libraries will no longer ship materials to addresses within a 50-mile radius of the MSU Main Library.  Faculty, staff, and students that live within 50 miles of the Main Library will need to pick up materials requested at the Main Library Circulation Desk, at the lockers in the north vestibule of the Main Library, or at the Gast Business Library.
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Title Description Author Publisher
Democracy in America Presentation copy, signed by the author.
  • McAdams, Dona
  • Miller, Tim
 <publisher unknown>
Details : San Marco, Venice Unique artist's book consisting of hand-assembled mosaics depicting details of the church of San Marco in Venice, Italy. The covers are sterling silver, with a tiger's eye gem mounted in the center of the front cover. The mosaics are made from painted paper and gold leaf. The endpapers are from a sample book of Michel Duval of Liancourt, France.
  • Davidson, Laura
  • L. Davidson
Diálogos bajo la llovizna Poem. Single sheet of corrugated cardboard is folded in half and serves as both cover and contents, spine is tied with thick, orange yarn cord. Mimeographed illustration on tan paper, with torn edges, and hand-lettered title on green paper with torn edges are mounted on outside front. Title page is hand-lettered in black on tan paper with torn edges and mounted on inside of front cover. Poem is printed on illustrated, brown paper scroll and mounted to inside of back cover, author's name is hand-lettered in black on green paper with torn edges and visible when scroll is rolled up. Scroll is 45 cm when extended full length. Part of a collection of handmade books, most with cords for hanging (literatura de cordel), published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture. UCF Library owns copy no.: 102., signed by author. I Premio de Poesía Eliezer Lazo 1998;. Esta edición consta de cien ejemplares numerados, firmados por su autor, iluminados a mano y totalmente manufacturados por las Edidiones Vigía en su colección Del San Juan. --T.p. MSU has copy no. 55.
  • Domínguez, Derbys
  • López, Ariel, 1978-
  • Zaldívar, Alfredo, 1956-
  • Ediciones Vigía
Diario del grumete Poem in eleven parts. Mimeographed reproduction of italic typescript, hand-lettered initials, titles, and illustrations on individual leaves of brown paper; endpapers are light blue tissue paper and light brown tracing paper. Stapled, glued to light-blue decorated-paper wrappers, and tied with blue and gray cords. Wrappers, collages, and other illustrations depict early nautical charts and sailing ships. Part of a collection of handmade books, most with cords for hanging (literatura de cordel), published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture. Diseño de Enrique Ramos y Orestes Roca. Realizado por Gisela Baranda [et al.] --Colophon. Publication information from wrappers. Consta de doscientos ejemplares numerados, firmados por su autor ... --Colophon. MSU has copy no. 174. LC has copy no. 123.
  • Baranda, Gisela
  • Díaz Corrales, Sonia, 1964-
  • Ramos, Enrique, 1961-
  • Roca, Orestes
  • Ediciones Vigía
Diez jutges a tempo : mirada a la nova canc˛ó : acercamiento a la nueva trova Edición: Leticia Herna?dez Benítez --Colophon. Reproduced typescript on coarse brown and sand-colored papers with decorative borders; black tissue endpapers. Stapled and glued to coarse paper wrappers. Wrappers have colored and decorated paper collages with reproduced typescript and hand-lettered titles, and with hand-colored details. Front wrapper incorporates a three-dimensional guitar with six strings of white cord. A selection of the song lyrics of 7 Spanish and 3 Cuban singer-songwriters. Includes brief biographical notes and portraits of the Spanish artists. Publicado ... junto a la VI Brigada de Cooperación de la Universidad de Lleida, consta de doscientos ejemplares numerados, iluminados a mano ... --Colophon. MSU has copy no. 181. Handmade books published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture.
  • Hernández Benítez, Leticia
  • López, Ariel, 1978-
  • Ramos, Enrique, 1961-
  • Ediciones Vigía
Difícil escribir Poems. Mimeographed reproduction of italic typescript, manuscript titles and text, drawings and borders on individual leaves of brown and cream-colored papers stapled at the left margin and tied with cord to cream-colored art-paper wrappers. Front wrapper and preliminaries have colored and decorated-paper collages. Part of a collection of handmade books, most with cords for hanging (literatura de cordel), published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture. Diseño y dibujos: Hiram Aguiar --Colophon. Publication information from colophon. Consta de doscientos ejemplares numerados ... --Colophon. Includes brief excerpts from Pedro Salinas. LC has copy no. 119, signed by the author. MSU has copy no. 77, and is signed by the author.
  • Aguiar, Hiram
  • Hernández Milián, Juan Luis, 1938-
  • Ediciones Vigía
Digital transcripts. Transcripts of a chat session, a blog entry, a forwarded email, an Internet meme, and an exchange of text messages. Part of the Zine Exchange series, created by students in a Visual Studies Book Design course at the State University of New York at Buffalo. <author unknown> <publisher unknown>
Direction of the road Artist's book issued in portfolio box with an original woodcut illustration in anomorphic art form and a mirror made of plastic tubing and reflective polymer to view the woodcut. Limited ed. of 120 numbered copies and 30 hor de commerce copies numbered i-xxx, signed by the author and artist. MSU copy: Signed by artist this is no. 36 of 150. MSU copy: Acquired with funds provided by the SPC Endowment (2007).
  • Johnson, Aaron
  • Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-
  • Foolscap Press
Diseños de Estévez para Vigía Exposición de los más representativos diseños de Rolando Estévez para las Ediciones Vigía. Casa de las Américas, La Habana, Cuba, mayo-junio, 1997. --Added t.p. Exhibition catalog. Includes essay by Estévez. Mimeographed reproduction of typescript, hand-lettered titles, and drawings on individual leaves of coarse brown and white papers. Stapled and glued to brown kraft paper wrappers. Endpapers are black tissue-paper. Wrappers have collages of decorated colored paper cut-outs; front wrapper incorporates wall paper. Handmade books published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture. Publication information from colophon. Consta de doscientos ejemplares numerados, iluminados a mano, mimeografiados y totalmente manufacturados por las Ediciones Vigía de Matanzas, Cuba. --Colophon. MSU has unnumbered copy. MSU copy: gift of Jeanne Drewes (2000).
  • Estévez Jordán, Rolando, 1950-
  • Ediciones Vigía
DNA collector book = Livre collecteur d'ADN Includes 50 leaves of tissue paper to be used interactively with the book. Christine Kermaire; MSU copy: Gift of the author (2010).
  • Kermaire, Christine
  • Christine Kermaire